Implement buffered reading [10x speed increase] #33
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After using
pprof
to run CPU profiles of the existing code (which I thought seemed slower than it should be), I noticed a lot of CPU time was going to syscalls. Given the file reading task that this code was performing this did not make sense (likey something I/O heavy going on here). After auditing the code I realized that the default readers in this codebase were unbuffered. Changing to buffered readers led to a 10x speed boost when reading a Native PixelData dicom from disk:Before:
After:
pprof before:
pprof after change: